A dazzlingly original new novel from the acclaimed author of The Borrower
Rebecca Makkai's first novel, The Borrower, was a Booklist Top Ten Debut, an Indie Next pick, and an O Magazine selection. Her short fiction has appeared in Harper's, Tin House, Ploughshares, and New England Review, and has been selected four times for The Best American Short Stories. The recipient of a 2014 NEA Fellowship, she lives in Chicago and Vermont.
Makkai’s second novel defies genre – part literary mystery, part
comedy of manners, part wickedly funny satire. Whichever way you
look at it, it’s remarkable.
*Daily Mail*
Rebecca Makkai is a writer to watch, as sneakily ambitious as she
is unpretentious.
*Richard Russo*
Makkai humorously turns the conventional family saga on its head,
in a clever exploration of metamorphosis and secrecy.
*Huffington Post*
Makkai has written a novel that reads almost like early Muriel
Spark – clever, competent, and concealing an unsettling and skewed
reality ... The hand that keeps giving the kaleidoscope another
turn, controlling just how the pieces land, isn't fate, of course.
It's the artist, Makkai is one.
*Chicago Tribune*
A big-hearted gothic novel, an intergenerational mystery, a story
of heartbreak and a romance, all crammed into one grand Midwestern
estate ... A juicy and moving story of art and love and the luck it
takes for either to last.
*Los Angeles Times*
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